Marc, In Germany in this era it was exceptional for cause of death to be mentioned on the civil death registration form. In the past, for Berlin deaths I found a great deal of extra details in the bur

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This looks more like an indiscriminate and overenthusiastic search for relatives from a newcomer to genealogy by DNA. If there are no clickable links in the message, it's probably not phishing. Odeda'

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Please provide a more sizeable example of the handwriting. The whole page would be a good start. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels Belgium

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When posting a translation request please specify language. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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The previous "new" theory about how Anne Frank and her family were found was that they were found by chance during a routine check of the store in front. Notes, anonymous or not, saying so-and-so coll

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Ma Grandma Mrs Chon? Any other samples of same handwriting? Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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Interesting! A NY wedding in German handwriting! Hammerstein is spelled correctly. The bar above m indicates double m. Same as n in Johanna. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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The link you provided takes me to my own MyViewmate page, not to yours. Please repost providing the full URL (copy-paste it into your message). Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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This is not a civil record proper, but a "reconstitution" of civil records destroyed by fire during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 or maybe the "Commune de Paris" the following year. I found this lin

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I would recommend uploading your raw data to GedMatch, which can handle data from all platforms (23andme, Ancestry, FTDNA, MyHeritage and at least 15 others), allowing matches to be found between rela

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I think this is normal procedure; updates to existing trees are carried out in batches twice or three times a year. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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Could you kindly provide names, act numbers and higher definition scans please? You might do better to post to ViewMate to make enlarging easier. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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If the record is on the Polish Archives site (szukaj....) there's a "download" link below the image. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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Another aspect to this query: I sent an update a year or two ago and it hasn't been processed. Will this eventually be processed, and if so, when? and if not, when should I send a new update? Nicole H

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As stated in several replies, information in databases should only be corrected if the indexer clearly misread the original record. No information absent from the original record should be added. You

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It's an affidavit saying David FRANKFURTER, son of married couple Josef L. FRANKFURTER and Kati KOLMAN, was born "here" (in Galanta) in 1848 in wedlock.

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In fact clicking "View/Reply Online" below a message opens a window where you can scroll down till you see a button "view all n messages in topic". This is certainly an improvement over the previous s

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There are two issues in this thread: a) endogamy and b) DNA bias. a) Endogamy is not peculiar to Ashkenazi Jews. In the past, most folks married within their own village, and marrying a cousin was not

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It's the death registration of Isaac SEELIG. I've responded on Viewmate. Nicole Heymans

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I agree with Eva Lawrence's view. In my own search for my maternal grandmother's ancestors, I have run into several instances of families A and B with the same family name, same father's given name an

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